23 and me - DNA says he is my half brother

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  1. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    As possible is that is, that feels like a fake post.
     
  2. Cheshire Bridge

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    The only thing, is that they have 3 posts total in their user history.


    Btw, went to nacho Daddy tonight. Still great margaritas. Food was only above avg this time. Downtown is just perfect this time of year....something special about sitting outside seeing the different crowds come and go and sitting on a swing. They just set up a bocce ball court too.
     
  3. HatterasJack

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    May want to read the first two words of that post.
     
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  4. Bo Pelinis

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    I did 23 and me and it said my father was a wayward camel. Boy does my mother have some explaining to do.
     
  5. * J Y *

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    I blame my extra chromosome.
     
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  6. GGCD

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    I'm not doing any of these ancestry websites because I read about a guy who committed a murder almost 50 years ago and was just recently apprehended because he submitted dna to one of these sites.

    Now I've never murdered and don't plan on it, but why chance it? My freedom is more important than knowing that my dad had some rando sex in the 70s.
     
  7. Prospector

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    I'll not take one of these tests because at some point insurance companies are going to get that data and fuck over everyone and their kids
     
  8. Capstone 88

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    That post is so fake it’s painful
     
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  9. GeneralPaton

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    Both of my grandmothers were obsessed with our family history so I’ve got a very comprehensive history of my entire family.

    My wife, however, is interesting because her grandmother was adopted so my mother in law took one of these and has been looking into her mother’s family recently. Both my MIL and her mom are insanely religious (Baptist) so when my MIL found out today that her moms real family is hardcore Mormon, it’s caused some mixed feelings to say the least. My atheist ass has been laughing all afternoon since my wife told me this development.
     
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    Going to be quite the praying tug of war going on.

    Also, that’s pretty wild for Mormons to let one slip away. Usually they’re the ones proactively adopting.
     
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  11. The Blackfish

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    He edited the post, it didn’t say reddit at first, it said “from a burner account”
     
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  12. The Blackfish

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  13. * J Y *

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    That makes me feel better fren.
     
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  14. HatterasJack

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    TMB Rule 12(c)4 states that if the edit makes it into your quote of the post, you are responsible for its contents. We have to have standards around here or it’s just chaos!
     
  15. MoJo

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    That's what he gets for being a snitch.
     
  16. wes tegg

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    It’s happened several times. They all got caught because a relative submitted DNA, not them.
     
  17. DelapThrows

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    The amount of latitude you are leaving open to commit murder in the future is a little high for my liking.
     
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  18. Born Again Lefty

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    Keep making posts like this and it will get a little higher!
     
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  19. Soup

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    I know I’ve shared that I’ve taken the dna test before but I’m not sure if I’ve ever told my situation.

    To sum it up my “father” knocked up my mom when she was 19 and he wanted her to have an abortion, blah, blah, blah, they didn’t work out, Ive never met him, he doesn’t claim me.

    Finally someone from that side of the family has taken one of these tests (my half sister’s son) and wouldn’t you know it he’s the highest percentage match I’ve had to date. Pretty funny.
     
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  20. The Blackfish

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    Did you know prior to this you had a half sister / half nephew
     
  21. Soup

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    Yeah I knew all that stuff. I've even talked to her before, and met him several years back. He looked like me as a kid.
     
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  22. Cheshire Bridge

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    Your nephew sounds cool
     
  23. 941Gator

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    what did you half sis say about your Dad?
     
  24. Soup

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    Like about the situation, or about him in general?
     
  25. 941Gator

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    general, him as a person.
     
  26. Soup

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    Oh, he's a big dickhead. I actually worked a couple of year with my cousin from that side of the family too. He's mentioned that my father thinks that he's above that side of the family basically.
     
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  27. Prospector

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    A DNA testing site turned this woman from an only child to one of 30 siblings
    Posted 4:30 pm, April 4, 2019, by CNN Wire

    ATLANTA –Shauna Harrison knows that every morning she could wake up to learn she has a new sibling.

    In the past two years, she has already gone from living her life as an only child to discovering through a DNA testing service that she is one of 30 people that share the same biological father.
    DNA testing services have become increasingly popular in recent years. While they have provided insights into the family history and hereditary conditions, there have also been many cases of unexpected results such as catching a serial killer and making surprising connections among living relatives.

    In 2017, Harrison, 41, logged back into her 23andMe account after a couple years and switched off her anonymity setting, she told CNN.

    Immediately, Harrison said, she was contacted on the site by a person who told her they share the same donor father.

    Harrison already knew that her parents used a sperm donor to conceive her. They told her when she was 27 and had asked questions about her health and hereditary conditions. But she didn’t know how quickly and dramatically her family would expand.

    One sibling turned into eight, Harrison said. Now there are 30 in all, ranging in age from 24 to 41. Most live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and many went to school near one another their whole lives. Some even knew each other before finding out they were related, said Jodi Hale, another of the siblings.

    “It’s a very weird — is the only word I can come up with — feeling when you meet, because you know you share DNA with them,” Harrison said. “We bond in a very different way.”

    Hale said that she also grew up as an only child and that she never felt like she quite fit in with her family — both parents had blue eyes, for example, and she does not. What she discovered was overwhelming.

    “Growing up as an only child, if you’re not making noise it’s quiet,” Hale said, remembering the flood of information. “I remember having a physical reaction to my computer, thinking ‘What am I doing? Do I want all of this?'”

    ‘I have never seen anyone with my eyes before’
    But once she finally met up with some of the people she never expected to meet who share her DNA, Hale found things that fascinated her: similar interests, a shared math-mindedness and like mannerisms.

    “I kept side-eyeing him” Hale said of a brother who sat next to her at her first dinner with the siblings. “I have never seen anyone with my eyes before.”

    Some of the siblings created a Facebook page to keep connected, Harrison said. While some are more involved than others, Harrison said that they use the Facebook page to share updates, keep tabs on birthdays and share information on the growing family.

    One brother, Ben Clark, has even created a set of slides that function as a sort of “welcome packet.” Clark said that the slides provide information on the donor, the siblings who are involved in the page and how they all came together — as many FAQs as possible.

    “Everybody starts out with similar questions,” Clark said. “Most of us are very analytical, and want as much information as possible.”

    The group and the information packet, he said, are likely to evolve for most of their lives.

    Every morning could bring a new brother or sister
    And, they suspect, there are more siblings to discover.

    For example, the siblings have seen an anonymous user show up on their accounts, but they could not get in contact with the person. As more people send their DNA to the site, Harrison anticipates the list will grow.

    Harrison said she meets up with the siblings who still live nearby and those who come into town. She and Hale recently went to a play that Clark’s children were in.

    It’s a community of people who relate to each other because of a very unique circumstance.

    “The biggest thing is that it’s such an odd situation that there’s not a lot of people who can understand,” Harrison said. “You know what it’s like to know that your dad is not your dad or to wake up and have a new sibling.”

    “It’s nice to have people to go through this process with. It’s not normal.”
     
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  29. TC

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    Out of your 4 grandparents, how many different states are they from? Like all from one state or four different states or what
     
  30. Cheshire Bridge

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  31. 941Gator

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    any updates?
     
  32. matistic

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    He never responded. Not sure if I have old info but didn’t push to find more. Guy just doesn’t have an online presence.
     
  33. Damion

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    No I really have nothing to go on besides him being born between 65-67 in Virginia. I have thought about taking a couple different dna tests and just seeing if anything comes back but havent pulled the trigger
     
  34. 941Gator

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    He can be found.
     
  35. Arkadin

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    Shit I'll find his ass RIGHT now
     
  36. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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    Goddamn.

    People 40 years ago thought they could have an illegitimate kid or 5, keep it a secret they take to their graves and no one would ever know. No concept that something like 23 and me could ever exist.

    Now I'm terrified some unfathomable scientific breakthrough will make it possible 30 years from now for my kids to find out all the inappropriate places I jerked off.
     
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  37. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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    Or they'll just find my tmb profile
     
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  38. IHHH

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    It’s a scam
     
  39. Imurhuckleberry

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    I just had my first interesting experience through 23&me. Closest match I've ever had came up as a probable first cousin but I didn't recognize the name. Looked at their profile and saw that they were adopted in Colorado and the records were closed. Asked my father if any of his family had a child they gave up for adoption in that year and it turns out that his youngest sister got knocked up in highschool. Back then you went away to visit family for awhile so she went away to Colorado. Person has a bit of an androgynous name, and 23&me doesn't state gender/sex but kinda excited that I have a new cousin. This would be the second found cousin this year. We found a cousin, from my uncle on my mom's side, in the Philippines a few months back. It's wild.
     
  40. Boo MFer!

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    Are you going to reach out?
     
  41. dblplay1212

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  42. Imurhuckleberry

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    Sent him/her a note that if he wanted to reach out he could. My dad and his sister had a big falling out after my gram passed away so I don't even know for sure where she is. I know she has a fb account and I could reach out to her but we haven't spoken in over a decade. Would be a shocker of a conversation, "hey! It's your long lost nephew. What's up? Speaking of long lost look who I just found..." *Phonedropsfromheartattack*
     
  43. 941Gator

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    Do it and post redacted screenshots imo.
     
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  45. matistic

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    Never got a reply from the contact info I found.
     
  46. rulethirty

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    Sounds like it's just information of the users who've consented to it.

     
  47. dblplay1212

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  48. IV

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    I don’t know 20% seems like a pretty decent opt out rate
     
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  49. dblplay1212

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    80% being ok with paying 23andMe to sell their genetic data seems insanely high.
     
  50. dblplay1212

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    https://www.businessinsider.com/dna-testing-delete-your-data-23andme-ancestry-2018-7

    After registering your spit sample online with 23andMe, you will be asked whether you'd like your saliva to be stored or discarded. But you are not asked the same question about your raw genetic data, the DNA extracted from your spit.

    Based on the wording of something called the "biobanking consent document," it's a bit unclear what happens to that raw DNA once you decide to have 23andMe either store or toss your spit.

    Here's what it says (emphasis added):

    "By choosing to have 23andMe store either your saliva sample or DNA extracted from your saliva, you are consenting to having 23andMe and its contractors access and analyze your stored sample, using the same or more advanced technologies."


    That leaves a bit of a gray area as far as what 23andMe has the ability to keep and how it can use your DNA information. If your spit or DNA sample is stored, the company can hold onto it for one to 10 years, "unless we notify you otherwise," the document says.

    Still, you can submit a request that the company discard your spit or close your account. To find instructions to do so, go to its customer-care page, navigate to "accounts and registration," scroll to the bottom of the bulleted list of options under "account creation and access," and select the last one, "requesting account closure."